KVR Audio

TwoToneshuzz · Post by **TwoToneshuzz** » Mon Feb 23, 2015 5:22 pm

jtenney wrote:Twotoneshuzz, I'm enjoying your contributions a LOT!! I think you are helping to prove that KS is a very broad application, with almost unlimited uses!

Thanks a lot. I've had some difficulties getting everthing to work smoothly because of my newbie status, but now I've got the workflow going I can relax and enjoy experimenting now.

The secret was having a variety of signals some recorded audio, taken captured from youtube using Audio Hijack Pro, and just one or two instruments, a sampler like Halion 5 playing a single instrument, and a single CPU heavy synth like Serum, Diva, or Spectral Synth. With these four signals I was able to run 4 nstances of Kaleidoscope, one or two instances of 2C B2 Native Instruments Molekular and iZotope Trash 2, and a few compressors. My mid 2011 iMac 3.1 Ghz handled this load quite neatly but anymore than this and it's over the limit.. I work with Wifi turned off..

jtenney · Post by **jtenney** » Mon Feb 23, 2015 5:31 pm

Hey, I am a "perpetual newbie," being late to the party of synthesis and electronic sound production in general after a career of live music performance... It's interesting that we have almost identical setups. I just had my son-in-law, a "Mac guru," swap the HD on my also-mid-2011 iMac for a new one, so I've got several more years of life on it. I also use Audio Hijack Pro, other stuff, so I'd say we're kind of parallel here... I do use audio I've field-recorded myself in lots of places, plus I've been experimenting with my own violin playing run through KS (and also Crusher X) among other apps. Cheers to the creative process!!

lnikj · Post by **lnikj** » Mon Feb 23, 2015 6:38 pm

Lacking Andrew's insight and long experience my image experiments continue on a fairly trial and error basis. Most I reject but a few are keepers. This one is of particular musical interest (IMHO):

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Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Mon Feb 23, 2015 8:36 pm

TwoToneshuzz · Post by **TwoToneshuzz** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 2:25 am

Interesting images lnikj and Simon.. I look forward to trying these because looking at them I can't guess what they will do in practice....

TwoToneshuzz · Post by **TwoToneshuzz** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 2:38 am

jtenney wrote:Hey, I am a "perpetual newbie," being late to the party of synthesis and electronic sound production in general after a career of live music performance... It's interesting that we have almost identical setups. I just had my son-in-law, a "Mac guru," swap the HD on my also-mid-2011 iMac for a new one, so I've got several more years of life on it. I also use Audio Hijack Pro, other stuff, so I'd say we're kind of parallel here... I do use audio I've field-recorded myself in lots of places, plus I've been experimenting with my own violin playing run through KS (and also Crusher X) among other apps. Cheers to the creative process!!

Yes for sure, the creative process seems to get supercharged with the kind of technologies becoming available. Now what really is going to make the man is to be able to keep from being overwhelmed by choice. Maintain a semblance of cohesion in production and output..

Actually the computer power is developing rather slowly these days so a 2011 iMac isn't that far behind the latest iMac models. I bought mine one year used for a considerable savings on a brand new model. So down the road I'll keep this strategy going, though I may just go for one last new computer in one year as I'd like a Mac Pro when it gets updated with the newest processors, but after that I wouldn't get another new computer keep riding on the back end of technology one gen behind first then two, then maybe even finding a ten year old tech being sufficient for my needs 10 year old tech as we know is almost free in the west..

The only reason for having a newer computer or iPhone etc is for keeping up with OS updates imo.

As for the creative activity, it puts a permanent stupid grin on face as I gain skills and understanding and produce a few things I'm happy with..

Gone soft · Post by **Gone soft** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 3:25 am

Niggle: could the entire name of pictures be shown also for long file names, at least when you move your mouse pointer over it? I have some pictures with similar names from experiments with various generative software and such, I'd rather not have to manually rename all of them to tell them apart in the list...

names in Kaleidoscope 2015-02-24.png

Having a blast going through the manual now.

Andrew Souter · Post by **Andrew Souter** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 3:58 am

V-GER wrote:Niggle: could the entire name of pictures be shown also for long file names, at least when you move your mouse pointer over it? I have some pictures with similar names from experiments with various generative software and such, I'd rather not have to manually rename all of them to tell them apart in the list...
names in Kaleidoscope 2015-02-24.png

Not sure how we would accomplish that within our GUI framework unfortunately...

I think renaming is your best best...

This is an essential tool for such things:

http://www.publicspace.net/ABetterFinderRename/

V-GER wrote: Having a blast going through the manual now.

Cool.

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 4:08 am

Here is an example from my real world, introducing the new genre of Kaleidoscope etudes.

Four rendered instances of Kaleidoscope processing the identical source sound - an animated drone texture from my Diversion soundset Diversity 2 - using 4 similar custom presets from the same preset family. Some Übermod, crusherX and B2 process the individual audio files, each rendered audio file is repeated twice and each track has individual volume automation.

http://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/u ... cope-etude

TwoToneshuzz · Post by **TwoToneshuzz** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 5:18 am

Sampleconstruct wrote:Here is an example from my real world, introducing the new genre of Kaleidoscope etudes.

Four rendered instances of Kaleidoscope processing the identical source sound - an animated drone texture from my Diversion soundset Diversity 2 - using 4 similar custom presets from the same preset family. Some Übermod, crusherX and B2 process the individual audio files, each rendered audio file is repeated twice and each track has individual volume automation.

http://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/u ... cope-etude

Incredible amount of sonic information in that example Simon! It's like living a lifetime of sound in the space of a few short minutes..

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 5:21 am

TwoToneshuzz wrote:
Incredible amount of sonic information in that example Simon! It's like living a lifetime of sound in the space of a few short minutes..

Nice impression/description, thank's

Andrew Souter · Post by **Andrew Souter** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 5:33 am

enjoy:

jtenney · Post by **jtenney** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 6:21 am

Sampleconstruct wrote:Here is an example from my real world, introducing the new genre of Kaleidoscope etudes.

Four rendered instances of Kaleidoscope processing the identical source sound - an animated drone texture from my Diversion soundset Diversity 2 - using 4 similar custom presets from the same preset family. Some Übermod, crusherX and B2 process the individual audio files, each rendered audio file is repeated twice and each track has individual volume automation.

http://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/u ... cope-etude

This is beautiful, Simon! I got lost in it, wearing phones... But I found my way back.

Etudes, mmm? Introducing a new genre? Consider also preludes, and fugues, and fantaisies upon themes of, well, whatever you like... You clearly know the sky's the limit with this instrument.

Beatworld · Post by **Beatworld** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 6:31 am

TwoToneshuzz wrote: Incredible amount of sonic information in that example Simon! It's like living a lifetime of sound in the space of a few short minutes..

Simon have you been outside and/or spoken with anyone else over the last month or so ?

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 7:41 am

Beatworld wrote:
TwoToneshuzz wrote: Incredible amount of sonic information in that example Simon! It's like living a lifetime of sound in the space of a few short minutes..
Simon have you been outside and/or spoken with anyone else over the last month or so ?

Lol, sure as I only kaleidoscope at night I speak to normal people during daytime before the Kaleidoverse sucks me back in around 2 am.

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